2025: 6 Weeks in Italy
Pretty epic trip killing myself on a weekly basis cycling in Italy. First ever ride on the European mainland! Lot of learning, lot of exploring and lots of great memories.
Cycling Guide
Tourism in Bassano Del Grappa
Quaint little city home to grappa
Tourism in Trento
Visiting the ancient Roman city and possibly a cat cafe.
The Dolomites Epic Riding
Just the tiny museums and attractions you can find around these islands.
Bergamo Cycling
Riding around this pretty nice town you’ve never heard of.
Visiting Milan
Just one day in Milan. So much to see, so much grand architecture.
Cycling Near Venice
Riding around Mestre and the Venice triple ferry loop and enjoying that nice 40c slap in the face.
Riding near Bassano Del Grappa
Monte Bondone, famous Giro climb. Asiago and lots of castles.
Cycling in Trento
Right at the base of the alps, one week before the Dolomites proper.
Little bit of tourism in Badia
Just the tiny museums and attractions you can find around these islands.
Bergamo Cycling
Checking out this cool Roman town with layers of walls
Cycling in Lombardia
The land of big lakes
Varese Tourism
Just checking out Varese and wrapping up the trip!
Tourism in Venice
Checking out one of the most unique places on earth.
2024-2025: Salish Sea Islands
Starting in 2024 I made an effort to visit way more new places and roads around Victoria, which started me on the project of trying to visit as many of the various Salish Sea islands as you can access.
There’s about 50 which the public can get on via a ferry or bridge but many more that are entirely private or only accessible with your own boat/kayak. Most of these have no roads to cycle on, but many hiking trails and camping spots.
I also made an effort to stop at as many museums as possible. Boy there sure are a lot of museums. Probably in the triple digits between Vancouver Islands, Vancouver and Northern WA alone.
Washington Attractions 2
More stuff around the Seattle Area ( but not inside that
horrible hellscape ).
Canada Salish Islands 11-29
The most remote /rugged Islands, from Port Hardy to crossing into Powel River.
Canada Salish Attractions 1
Just the tiny museums and attractions you can find around these islands.
U.S.A. Islands 1-12
Starting on the U.S. side crossing into Port Angeles from Victoria.
Washington Attractions 1
Made a point to stop at as many museums and other
various attractions as possible on this trip.
Canada Salish Islands 1-10
Mostly the well traveled nicely paved big Islands near city centers.
Canada Salish Attractions 2
Just the tiny museums and attractions you can find around these islands.
U.S.A. Islands 13-22
Visiting the BETTER U.S.A. Salish Islands.
2024: Hawai’i and Maui
Part 1: Big Island Rides
Part 2: Big Island Attractions
Part 3: Big Island Rides 2
Part 4: Big Island Attractions 2
Part 5: Maui Rides
Part 6: Maui Attractions
2024: Madeira/ Canary Islands
Part 4: Back in Tenerife
Mainly doing the western side of the Island, going up Mount Teide every way possible.
Part 1: Madeira
First stop on the Portugese island of Madeira, trying to
do every road. It’s steep!
Part 3: Gran Canaria
Filling the heatmap as much as possible on the other
large volcanic island of the Canaries. Prime tourist destination as well!
Part 2: Tenerife North
First stay in the Canaries on the Island of Tenerife, home to Mount Teide and lots of epic climbing.
Part 5: La Palma, La Gomera and Back.
Visiting more islands including the primal La Palma volcanic paradise and then making my way back home.
2023 Summer Trip.
Planned a week in Lake Tahoe with friends so obviously I had to expand it to a big trip since the car hasn’t exploded yet.
2022 Bonus Winter Trip to visit my friends Carmen and Ryan at their new house in Tuscon.
Part 4: Leaving Tahoe
Back on the road with the bike still hanging on by a thread. Doing more Northern California big mountains.
Part 1: Leaving Home
Mainly crossing through the Rockies doing as many mountains as I could, not that Canada has many.
Part 2: Mega Drive
Zooming down from Calgary to Salt Lake city and discovering that there’s still snow everywhere in May.
Part 3: Bike Slowly Dying
Amazing vistas and mountains but mounting mechanical issues start to derail my plans. Made it to Lake Tahoe at least.
Part 5: Time to go back
Bike gave up for good so it was truly time to go back. Lot of unfortunate material emergencies this trip.
Driving Down To Tuscon
Driving over 1000km in 3 days to go stay at my friend’s house in Tuscon!
Tuscon
Tuscon: Prime winter destination for North American cyclists. Also has cool statues of quails. Woah.
California Cycling Adventure
Almost 16 000m of climbing in 8 days. Brutal weather conditions but still beautiful compared to most of Canada right now.
Bay Area and Trip End :,(
Last little touristy jaunt around the bay area and the drive back along the California and Oregon coast.
First car camping / Cycling road trip. Over 17 weeks all across Canada!
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Bonus Week in the USA
Just dipping down in WA state for some last epic riding and hanging out with squirrels.
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Week 17 - Super Climbing Last Week
Last official week. Making it count with over 13 000m of climbs.
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Week 16 - Jasper and Banff Viewgasm
Jasper to Banff. Some of the most epic scenery in the world. Plus the Giant Beaver statue.
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Week 15 - Prairies: So Many Statues
So much driving, so many big statues. When you don’t have epic mountains, you build statues.
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Week 14 - Lightspeed through Ontario
Touring Canada Week 14! Driving over 2200km from Ottawa to Winnipeg. The chase for large statues of things intensifies.ription goes here
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Week 13 - Hanging Out
Week 13. Lots of hanging out, not so many pictures. Sorry not sorry.
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Week 12 - Back to Montreal
Touring Canada Week 12 - Adios to Maritimes and back to Montreal! This is a potato btw.
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Week 11 - Maritimes and Bay of Fundy
First full week back from Newfoundland. Boats and big stuff here. Little bit of whales.
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Week 10 - Escape from Newfoundland
Touring Canada Week 10 - St-John’s and heading out back west! Flipper Pie, ew.
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Week 9 - Cabot Trail and Newfoundland
Starting the week with a 300km ride and then traveling around Newfoundland at a hectic pace, eating all the weird foods I can.
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Week 8 - Gaspesie and Maritimes
Visiting beautiful Gaspesie and less beautiful Prince Edward Island and Maritimes. Sorry it’s true.
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Week 7 - Mauricie to Gaspesie
Leaving friends behind, getting real damn sick and making it to beautiful Gaspesie.
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Week 6 - St-Agathe and Montreal
Hanging out with old friends from the city. Good times, I miss you guys.
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Week 5 - Niagara Falls to Ottawa
Beautiful Niagara region and catching up with my dad and old friends in Ottawa!
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Week 4 - So Many Lakes
Ontario with the good weather, the endless lakes and the pizza machine.
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Week3 - Alberta, Prairies and making it to Ontario
Some summer detected at long last.
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Week 2- Rockies and Wineries
Week of mountain passe and wineries.
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Week 1 - Vancouver, Salt Spring and Mainland
Trip officially started!
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Test Week on Vancouver Island
This is where I tested my rig and the car camping life to see if it was feasible and what to tweak.
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Biking in the Victoria Region
The cool stuff to do and see around the eastern peninsula of Vancouver Island.
2022: Car Camping and Biking Across Canada.
The original plan with all the rides and stops. Hopes and dreams!
Conversion and general car camping life:
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Life on the Road 2
One last little update about car camping life and solving / dealing with problems on the fly.
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Life on the road 1
Just random notes and pictures about living in the car.
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Car Camping Conversion - Part 1
Bought a SUV to do car camping, here’s part 1 of what I did to do stealth camping it.
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Car Camping Conversion - Part 2
All the stuff I’m putting in my car.
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Car Camping Conversion - Part 3
The things I learned after testing my rig for one week.